Reg day is Monday QQ (I already handed in my forms yesterday).
I finally made my first "good" cup on Friday. It has a translucent green body, wrapped around with an opaque dark green spiral. It's still off centered, but let's not talk about that. For lunch I decided to get some sushi and clam chowder; a few hours later, I realized why I had stopped getting sushi and chowder from non-sushi and non-chowder shops. I did some UROP (Hyperstudio) for a couple hours before going to 6.470 awards ceremony. Let me first say that although Expresso had some functionality issues, I was impressed. But the final 8 sites for the 6.470 were RIDICULOUS. A bunch of them looked professional and is easily better than half of the Web 2.0 community websites out there. It's crazy what some html/css/js can do, and then add some Flex and Silverlight, and g fucking g. High quality stuff.
(insert 45 min MASLab trip; SELECT * FROM disfunctionalBots)
Julian and I were planning on treating Anton to dinner for all his work on 6.370 and 6.470 on and off for a week now. We decided do it Friday. Along the way it somehow turned into a boys night out (mainly to stick it to Sandra), but it didn't turn out that way. Anthony was busy on resume/cover letter stuff, Bohan has dinner with his good looking 8.01 table mates, Robert had a retreat, Chris and Peter is afk somewhere, and Nathan had late track practice. Anyway Anton, Julian, and I managed to catch the Cambidge West Saferide (and almost got ran over by a bunch of cars running to the bus stop). Apparently Cambridge West != Tech Shuttle. The bus went past MicroCenter and did a loop around the residential area of Central Cambridge (Cambridgeport according to Anton). I was like I don't know where we are, and Anton and Julian was like "wtf mate?" Then I saw that we were really close to Central Square, and I asked the bus driver if he can just drop us off on the spot. The super nice driver did :D. Julian for some reason wanted a super $$$ restruant to take Anton to, and I obliged him by planning on going to Z Square (not $$$, maybe $$). It was closed (luckily?). Since it was a cold wintry night, Anton and I had a craving for some hot Pho, so we went to Li's instead. Each of us got a bowl of Pho (Julian had to be persuaded and I got the extra-large bowl T.T) and then ordered, chicken skewers, ginger chicken, and catfish for some family styled grubbery. Pho was nice and hot (not super good, but very suitable for the climate), and the entrees were delicious (the fish was somewhat lacking in quantity though). All in all super awesome fest without leaving a gigantic pit in our wallets. After dinner, we talked around the square for a while to walk off the uncomfortableness of such a big dinner. We ran into Julian's Hawaiian friend (Feng and Anton approved) from Harvard. Apparently they were both talking about each other right before we ran into them, karma right? Harvard has a formal that night, and a bunch of people were heading there including Julian's friend and.... VARTIKAR. Somewhat weird chance meeting. For some reason I thought I gave a bad impression, but why the fuck should I care what he thinks... weird. On the way back, the three of us talked about girls (what else lol?), and how it's been a long time since we've been in the game (or attempted to). And it has, but school makes me tired. Why spend that extra effort when you can hang out with friends? But then again, I don't know what I'm missing out on...
Once we got back to MIT, I stopped by MacG to grab my "portable" entertainment system (aka laptop+HD+cables). Went to Nathan's some asap and hooked everything up. Next thing you know, I got this 720p version of my desktop on Nathan's 30-something inch HDTV, and music from my computer was blasting out of Nathan's Z-5500 sound system. It was a sweat setup. And then it was Ip Man time. Ip Man turned out to be a badass kungfu movie (Julian was watching the Canto version on his laptop simultaneously). It was much better than the 1000 trashy kungfu/supercop movies out there. And like most Chinese movies, there was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment. The scene where Ip Man owned 10 Japanese soldier/kungfu students was friggin' epic.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Reality Hits Hard
Wow, it's been almost a week since I last blogged. Life's busy, but luckily I found some time this early morning to archive a little piece of it.
Saturday: (note: I had to read Anton's blog to remember some stuff lol)
On early Saturday morning, we had a half-birthday party for Anthony and Robert. And Jenny made some IMBA cakes. Like those are ridiculously well made with different layers and shit (special cake for a special someone maybe? at least I remembered that that's what I thought at the time...). Robert got a strawberry vanilla cake, and Anthony got a chocolate strawberry cake; both are amazing. And when you have birthdays, you have showers :D. Anthony was the first to go down. He was in the bathroom, washing a fork or something, and we just ambushed him. After he got showered, he immediately went for Robert, and that started a chain reaction of showerings. The girls (Jenny and Sandra) came next, then Julian, and lastly Anton (yes!!!). Julian was also slapping random people's asses during the heat of things... rofl control yourself... I managed to stay relatively dry throughtout the ordeal. I wanted to get showered because I kind of felt left out of a group bonding experience. It was mainly because of a bad arguement Robert and I got into at the beginning of the year, when I dared him to shower me with Jenny and Anton. So he tried, except he got Julian to help, and four vs one small 135 lb Chinese nerd ain't fair. Apparently he refuses to shower me since then :(. I think we need to mend our friendship.
I woke up at noon on Saturday, and went to Next to do some coding on Battlecode. We didn't get much done within the three hours before Anton's Lunar New Year party (sigh), and our archons liked to spin around randomly. Around 5pm, me, Anton, Anthony, Nathan, Julian, Sandra, and Jenny crammed into both of Anton's parents' cars (Latifah, who lives two doors down, and her mom went with us too). The car ride was somewhat awkward as I crammed into with the girls, and no one spoke at all (wtf, not my fault I hope). When we got to Anton's house, all of us caught up on some good old television, and then had some kickass food. Fried shrimp is soooooo good. Then we went back to the tube, watch some Cops and then Crusoe (both are kinda bad, but it was chill). And then we said our goodbyes to the lovely Nguyen family. I decided to ride with the guys on the way back, switching spots with Anthony (sry). When we got back, Anton give us all red envelopes, which was like DUDE WTF!! YOU JUST INVITED ME TO YOUR HOUSE AND GAVE US FOOD AND NOW YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOUR MONEY?! lol yea... but I took it reluctantly because arguing in the lobby would not have been cool (now I think of it, I still haven't opened it). On the way to 3W, Julian and I had a semi-serious arguement on who get Anton for the next few days (I rightfully deserve to since Battlecode was due Monday...), and we had a scuffle which resulted in this:
Don't ask how Jenny ended up on the bottom.
We got back at around 9:30PM, which is really early for us college students. Jenny, Nathan, Anton, Anthony, and I had a sudden craving for a movie, and I suggest City of God, which was a damn good movie. After we watched it, everyone was like damn that was intense, raw, and of epic proportions. We were like we don't know what to say... Funny thing that happened during the movie was when Shorty's wife was talking to another woman about sex and bananas, Nathan was like "wtf are we watching?" We still had a craving for movies though, so we watched Superbad, which was hilarious in the beginning. Sometime in the middle, the pace slowed and, since I saw it before, I flew asleep. I woke up during the "sex" scene at the party and was woah, and then I went back to MacG because I was exhausted.
Sunday:
I was woken up by Shankari at 12:30PM telling me that our truffle making class was at 1PM. WTF Sandra said it was at 3PM, just a day ago... (she lies too much). So my breakfast turned out to be 10% water, 5% cream, and 85% chocolate; sweet (literally). Robert and I partnered by and started off with a batch of dark chocolate. We tried to go for the breakfast beverage theme by adding coffee and raspberry and cherry tea. It tasted pretty good in ganache form, but later turned out to taste like medicine cherry (too much tea ftl). Our second batch was based on white chocolate. Since we started out semi-conservative, Robert and I decided to go all out. I really wanted to make something hot and spicy, so I wanted to put in cumin, paprika, and chipotle chilly pepper powder. Robert wanted garlic for some reason and also chose coffee to balance out the taste. In the end, we added everything. Sandra was like wtf, you're chocolate sux balls, eww. When the ganache was finished, everyone had a taste, and they were like wtf. It wasn't a bad wtf though; it was just genuine confusion. Too much spice; taste bud overload!!111!! Later on, after being rolled and shit, the truffle would start out like a punch of spice and fade into the silky smoothness of coffee. It was a masterpiece.
After the class ended at 3PM, a bunch of us went to the student center for lunch; I need a mini-meal of chicken noodle soup ($4.99 wtf man, it's soup). And then dropped my stuff off at MacG and headed back home for my own Chinese New Year dinner. My parents made dumplings, fish, and duck, and there was so much food... We then had a chat with my uncle and grandma via MSN. The next thing I knew, I was getting driven back to MIT. Got back around 10:00PM, I made Anton read them Rekrul threads on TL.net just to procrastinate. Then we worked on Battlecode until 4AM. Not much improvement. Archons spin and get trapped, workers still don't work, and my mini standing army was pathetic.
Monday:
Monday was all Battlecode, from 3PM to 10PM (ok I lied, I went to Dating Etiquette at 1PM sponsored by Charm School; it was boring as fuck). After hours of hardcore coding, Anton and I got our shit together and finally managed to get navigation and defense to run somewhat well (this was revision 116). The weird thing about r116 was that it couldn't best rushplayer... Then Geza came in around 8PM, which is about when we got shit working and decided to pimp our workers. The next two hours flew by super fast, and after some minor tweaks and a supposedly A* worker algorithm, we got revision 122. Except that the workers were as bad as ever, and the tweaks somehow made us lose to refplayer. So we just went from beating 3/4 computer ai to beating 2/4 to beating 1/4. WTF!!!! progress FTL. Argh after some minor panicking, we just uploaded our newest code and said fuck it.
I was glad that Battlecode was over (for now...) and not completely satisfied, but didn't want to think about it anymore. Went to 3W, and rewatched the Matrix. It was still as good as ever. Hello Mr. Anderson.
Tuesday:
The day of reckoning. Tuesday was the day of the Battlecode qualifying tournament, aka Judgement Day. Woke up super late (1PM) after a really exhausting Monday and checked the Battlecode website for the brackets. They weren't up for some reason, so I decided to go anyway since i got nothing better to do. I first went to Anna's for some grub and met Jenny there, and we went to 34-101 soon after. We just there just after we lost to Must Need Energon, so I didn't get to see how we lost :(. After watching Cathy's lose too, Jenny had to go back to Next, and I went to Media Lab UROP. Ankur said it was possible to get a MySQL database on rufus.media.mit.edu except I didn't know any Unix commands and didn't have permission yet, so I was like wtf. And then he said that I should get a basic visualization for the loans and bids tables by the end of the week. Yea.. I'm screwed. Doing too much during IAP unfortunately leads to half-assing a lot of stuff QQ. I then went back to Battlecode and saw that we were matched against David Chen and Darren's robot g fucking g. Yea, went 0-2 after all that hard work. God damn it. Both the teams we faced went pretty far, so I kind of felt cheated. But.. excuses are excuse.... damn. Later that day I talked a lot of trash about other people's code who went farther than us in the tourney, like Bartlet For America, but I was being a sore loser... I decided to take Tuesday off as a mental health day. And spent the night at Next House, don't remember doing what.. maybe Magic. Went back to MacG and caught up on some The Shield w00t.
Wednesday:
Wedneday was when shit started to rain. Early in the morning, my mom called and reminded me of my citizenship interview the next day. SHIT. Didn't do any preparation at all... I went to meet with Mr. Holtzmann in the early afternoon to discuss my schedule. He basically said my courses (14.01, 6.01, 18.03, 18.06) were all really good, but I had to do some HASS's and biology. I asked/tried to persuade him that I should try to petition for 3 more credits to add on a full HASS class (I was looking into Rhetoric, which is both a HASS-D and a CI-H), but he told me frankly that it was pretty much impossible (like you had to get the dean involved and shit... not worth it).This whole sophomore standing thing is complete BS. It's kids with sophomore standing that the Institute should worry about taking on too many classes... People who didn't have 1000 APs in high school are either sane or slackers. Fuck the system. He also gave a good arguement about how taking biology later is going to be a bitch because the other classes are only going to get harder. Scheduling sucks. I then went to the Hyperstudio and did a 4 hour programming sprint and launched the "launch clips" website. It's simple to do, but tedious, and some of the clips didn't work. It snowed/rained get a bitch that day. There were some epic puddles... zizi yo boots. At night I went to J. Crew with Anthony, Bohan, and Sandra. Before the event started, I dropped by Borders to get A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, the first book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series. It's supposedly epic like the Wheel of Time series, but I need to allocate time to reading... MIT just sucks away time like crazy. The J. Crew event was somewhat interesting (more interesting that I would like to admit), but still superficial, and I gots no money for fashion BS. Bohan needed to go to the bathroom, and the rest of crew did their disappearing act, and 5 minutes later called me in the middle of the talk. Not very cool. By the time I got back to MacG, my boots were soaked, so Next was out of the question. Watched more of The Shield and legitimately studied for the easiest test of my test. "What do the 13 stripes stand for?" Jesus fucking Christ, every resident in the US should know that...
Thursday:
Citizenship internship. Woke up early (10AM) actually and met my mom at the Z center to get my Selective Service shit, which wasn't even used. I walked to Government Center from Charles/MGH, and for some reason automatically assumed it was in the city hall building, but it turned out to be in the big tall white building across the plaza called the JFK Federal Buiding. I had to wait one fucking hour to get tested by this "i-fucking-hate-my-life" immigration officer. Easiest shit ever. I had to read "Where is the White House?" out loud, laughing out loud! Took only like 3 minutes. Then I had to wait in another room for my real interview. That wait was worse because I ran out of reading material and was hungry. I hate bureaucracy... My interviewer was a nice lady in her thirties. The "interview" turned out to be just a review of my naturalization form. Just a formality really. And then I was done. I'm going to be a citizen. Getting naturalized on March 4th at the Hynes. It's a Wednesday, so hopefully there won't be a test or something. Waiting is tiring, no joke. When I went to the Hyperstudio to fit in a hour of work, I just slumped in on the comfy revolving chair and wanted to sleep. Went to glassblowing next, but basically I fail at making cups. The first one I made last week had a cracked bottom, the second one which I made today collapsed, and my third attempt was pretty good actually, until I had to take it off. I shifted my left hand to grip the blow tube more firmly, but the pipe was really hot, so I immediately jerked away, and the cup was knocked from the pipe and bounced off the again. Luckily Katy(Katie? Katey?), the TA, reacted fast and put the cup into the annealer quickly. Apparently, the cup didn't change deform when it hit the ground wtf. Anyway, when I went OH SHIT, my hand rested on the hot jacks, and now I have a semi-big burn mark on my hand . GG.
I headed over to 6.270 competition next to support Peter, Shankari, and Kristin. There are so much more people there then at the 6.370 qualifying tourny :(. Hopefully people show up to the Battlecode finals. It's going to be epic. Go Spencer! The competition cool and fun to watch and really easy to understand. But pretty all the robot except the top eight failed. They didn't move at all... Including my buddies' robot. Peter was a bit upset. There's some tension with Shankari... She's been acting a bit weird lately; kinda worry for her. sigh. Then when I arrived at Next House, Jenny told me that Anton and Julian went their website to the wrong person, so technically they didn't submit yet, and Julian was breaking down. Shit 0-3, fail. As we approached 3W, it was kind of funny how me, Bohan, and Jenny were walking quietly and whispering, afraid to disturb the hornet's nest. Then all of the sudden we heard Julian's hysterical laugh from Jenny's room. Uh-oh, he's lost it. NOT!!!! JULIAN GOT AN EMAIL SAYING THAT THEY WERE SEMI FINALISTS!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!! (I wished Anton spent that much time on Battlecode QQ). Yea, today was intense.
Now that I finally caught up on my blogging. I have to do Media Lab UROP (aka learn MATLAB and MySQL in the next three hours). I also have buy books and register for classes. Shit. Reality hit hard and fast...
P.S. w00t, Bohan's learning Starcraft.
P.P.S. phew, my first epic blog
P.P.P.S. I BEAT ANTON'S LONGEST BLOG RECORD BIATCH!
P.P.P.P.S. Last day of IAP T_T
Saturday: (note: I had to read Anton's blog to remember some stuff lol)
On early Saturday morning, we had a half-birthday party for Anthony and Robert. And Jenny made some IMBA cakes. Like those are ridiculously well made with different layers and shit (special cake for a special someone maybe? at least I remembered that that's what I thought at the time...). Robert got a strawberry vanilla cake, and Anthony got a chocolate strawberry cake; both are amazing. And when you have birthdays, you have showers :D. Anthony was the first to go down. He was in the bathroom, washing a fork or something, and we just ambushed him. After he got showered, he immediately went for Robert, and that started a chain reaction of showerings. The girls (Jenny and Sandra) came next, then Julian, and lastly Anton (yes!!!). Julian was also slapping random people's asses during the heat of things... rofl control yourself... I managed to stay relatively dry throughtout the ordeal. I wanted to get showered because I kind of felt left out of a group bonding experience. It was mainly because of a bad arguement Robert and I got into at the beginning of the year, when I dared him to shower me with Jenny and Anton. So he tried, except he got Julian to help, and four vs one small 135 lb Chinese nerd ain't fair. Apparently he refuses to shower me since then :(. I think we need to mend our friendship.
I woke up at noon on Saturday, and went to Next to do some coding on Battlecode. We didn't get much done within the three hours before Anton's Lunar New Year party (sigh), and our archons liked to spin around randomly. Around 5pm, me, Anton, Anthony, Nathan, Julian, Sandra, and Jenny crammed into both of Anton's parents' cars (Latifah, who lives two doors down, and her mom went with us too). The car ride was somewhat awkward as I crammed into with the girls, and no one spoke at all (wtf, not my fault I hope). When we got to Anton's house, all of us caught up on some good old television, and then had some kickass food. Fried shrimp is soooooo good. Then we went back to the tube, watch some Cops and then Crusoe (both are kinda bad, but it was chill). And then we said our goodbyes to the lovely Nguyen family. I decided to ride with the guys on the way back, switching spots with Anthony (sry). When we got back, Anton give us all red envelopes, which was like DUDE WTF!! YOU JUST INVITED ME TO YOUR HOUSE AND GAVE US FOOD AND NOW YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOUR MONEY?! lol yea... but I took it reluctantly because arguing in the lobby would not have been cool (now I think of it, I still haven't opened it). On the way to 3W, Julian and I had a semi-serious arguement on who get Anton for the next few days (I rightfully deserve to since Battlecode was due Monday...), and we had a scuffle which resulted in this:
Don't ask how Jenny ended up on the bottom.
We got back at around 9:30PM, which is really early for us college students. Jenny, Nathan, Anton, Anthony, and I had a sudden craving for a movie, and I suggest City of God, which was a damn good movie. After we watched it, everyone was like damn that was intense, raw, and of epic proportions. We were like we don't know what to say... Funny thing that happened during the movie was when Shorty's wife was talking to another woman about sex and bananas, Nathan was like "wtf are we watching?" We still had a craving for movies though, so we watched Superbad, which was hilarious in the beginning. Sometime in the middle, the pace slowed and, since I saw it before, I flew asleep. I woke up during the "sex" scene at the party and was woah, and then I went back to MacG because I was exhausted.
Sunday:
I was woken up by Shankari at 12:30PM telling me that our truffle making class was at 1PM. WTF Sandra said it was at 3PM, just a day ago... (she lies too much). So my breakfast turned out to be 10% water, 5% cream, and 85% chocolate; sweet (literally). Robert and I partnered by and started off with a batch of dark chocolate. We tried to go for the breakfast beverage theme by adding coffee and raspberry and cherry tea. It tasted pretty good in ganache form, but later turned out to taste like medicine cherry (too much tea ftl). Our second batch was based on white chocolate. Since we started out semi-conservative, Robert and I decided to go all out. I really wanted to make something hot and spicy, so I wanted to put in cumin, paprika, and chipotle chilly pepper powder. Robert wanted garlic for some reason and also chose coffee to balance out the taste. In the end, we added everything. Sandra was like wtf, you're chocolate sux balls, eww. When the ganache was finished, everyone had a taste, and they were like wtf. It wasn't a bad wtf though; it was just genuine confusion. Too much spice; taste bud overload!!111!! Later on, after being rolled and shit, the truffle would start out like a punch of spice and fade into the silky smoothness of coffee. It was a masterpiece.
After the class ended at 3PM, a bunch of us went to the student center for lunch; I need a mini-meal of chicken noodle soup ($4.99 wtf man, it's soup). And then dropped my stuff off at MacG and headed back home for my own Chinese New Year dinner. My parents made dumplings, fish, and duck, and there was so much food... We then had a chat with my uncle and grandma via MSN. The next thing I knew, I was getting driven back to MIT. Got back around 10:00PM, I made Anton read them Rekrul threads on TL.net just to procrastinate. Then we worked on Battlecode until 4AM. Not much improvement. Archons spin and get trapped, workers still don't work, and my mini standing army was pathetic.
Monday:
Monday was all Battlecode, from 3PM to 10PM (ok I lied, I went to Dating Etiquette at 1PM sponsored by Charm School; it was boring as fuck). After hours of hardcore coding, Anton and I got our shit together and finally managed to get navigation and defense to run somewhat well (this was revision 116). The weird thing about r116 was that it couldn't best rushplayer... Then Geza came in around 8PM, which is about when we got shit working and decided to pimp our workers. The next two hours flew by super fast, and after some minor tweaks and a supposedly A* worker algorithm, we got revision 122. Except that the workers were as bad as ever, and the tweaks somehow made us lose to refplayer. So we just went from beating 3/4 computer ai to beating 2/4 to beating 1/4. WTF!!!! progress FTL. Argh after some minor panicking, we just uploaded our newest code and said fuck it.
I was glad that Battlecode was over (for now...) and not completely satisfied, but didn't want to think about it anymore. Went to 3W, and rewatched the Matrix. It was still as good as ever. Hello Mr. Anderson.
Tuesday:
The day of reckoning. Tuesday was the day of the Battlecode qualifying tournament, aka Judgement Day. Woke up super late (1PM) after a really exhausting Monday and checked the Battlecode website for the brackets. They weren't up for some reason, so I decided to go anyway since i got nothing better to do. I first went to Anna's for some grub and met Jenny there, and we went to 34-101 soon after. We just there just after we lost to Must Need Energon, so I didn't get to see how we lost :(. After watching Cathy's lose too, Jenny had to go back to Next, and I went to Media Lab UROP. Ankur said it was possible to get a MySQL database on rufus.media.mit.edu except I didn't know any Unix commands and didn't have permission yet, so I was like wtf. And then he said that I should get a basic visualization for the loans and bids tables by the end of the week. Yea.. I'm screwed. Doing too much during IAP unfortunately leads to half-assing a lot of stuff QQ. I then went back to Battlecode and saw that we were matched against David Chen and Darren's robot g fucking g. Yea, went 0-2 after all that hard work. God damn it. Both the teams we faced went pretty far, so I kind of felt cheated. But.. excuses are excuse.... damn. Later that day I talked a lot of trash about other people's code who went farther than us in the tourney, like Bartlet For America, but I was being a sore loser... I decided to take Tuesday off as a mental health day. And spent the night at Next House, don't remember doing what.. maybe Magic. Went back to MacG and caught up on some The Shield w00t.
Wednesday:
Wedneday was when shit started to rain. Early in the morning, my mom called and reminded me of my citizenship interview the next day. SHIT. Didn't do any preparation at all... I went to meet with Mr. Holtzmann in the early afternoon to discuss my schedule. He basically said my courses (14.01, 6.01, 18.03, 18.06) were all really good, but I had to do some HASS's and biology. I asked/tried to persuade him that I should try to petition for 3 more credits to add on a full HASS class (I was looking into Rhetoric, which is both a HASS-D and a CI-H), but he told me frankly that it was pretty much impossible (like you had to get the dean involved and shit... not worth it).This whole sophomore standing thing is complete BS. It's kids with sophomore standing that the Institute should worry about taking on too many classes... People who didn't have 1000 APs in high school are either sane or slackers. Fuck the system. He also gave a good arguement about how taking biology later is going to be a bitch because the other classes are only going to get harder. Scheduling sucks. I then went to the Hyperstudio and did a 4 hour programming sprint and launched the "launch clips" website. It's simple to do, but tedious, and some of the clips didn't work. It snowed/rained get a bitch that day. There were some epic puddles... zizi yo boots. At night I went to J. Crew with Anthony, Bohan, and Sandra. Before the event started, I dropped by Borders to get A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, the first book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series. It's supposedly epic like the Wheel of Time series, but I need to allocate time to reading... MIT just sucks away time like crazy. The J. Crew event was somewhat interesting (more interesting that I would like to admit), but still superficial, and I gots no money for fashion BS. Bohan needed to go to the bathroom, and the rest of crew did their disappearing act, and 5 minutes later called me in the middle of the talk. Not very cool. By the time I got back to MacG, my boots were soaked, so Next was out of the question. Watched more of The Shield and legitimately studied for the easiest test of my test. "What do the 13 stripes stand for?" Jesus fucking Christ, every resident in the US should know that...
Thursday:
Citizenship internship. Woke up early (10AM) actually and met my mom at the Z center to get my Selective Service shit, which wasn't even used. I walked to Government Center from Charles/MGH, and for some reason automatically assumed it was in the city hall building, but it turned out to be in the big tall white building across the plaza called the JFK Federal Buiding. I had to wait one fucking hour to get tested by this "i-fucking-hate-my-life" immigration officer. Easiest shit ever. I had to read "Where is the White House?" out loud, laughing out loud! Took only like 3 minutes. Then I had to wait in another room for my real interview. That wait was worse because I ran out of reading material and was hungry. I hate bureaucracy... My interviewer was a nice lady in her thirties. The "interview" turned out to be just a review of my naturalization form. Just a formality really. And then I was done. I'm going to be a citizen. Getting naturalized on March 4th at the Hynes. It's a Wednesday, so hopefully there won't be a test or something. Waiting is tiring, no joke. When I went to the Hyperstudio to fit in a hour of work, I just slumped in on the comfy revolving chair and wanted to sleep. Went to glassblowing next, but basically I fail at making cups. The first one I made last week had a cracked bottom, the second one which I made today collapsed, and my third attempt was pretty good actually, until I had to take it off. I shifted my left hand to grip the blow tube more firmly, but the pipe was really hot, so I immediately jerked away, and the cup was knocked from the pipe and bounced off the again. Luckily Katy(Katie? Katey?), the TA, reacted fast and put the cup into the annealer quickly. Apparently, the cup didn't change deform when it hit the ground wtf. Anyway, when I went OH SHIT, my hand rested on the hot jacks, and now I have a semi-big burn mark on my hand . GG.
I headed over to 6.270 competition next to support Peter, Shankari, and Kristin. There are so much more people there then at the 6.370 qualifying tourny :(. Hopefully people show up to the Battlecode finals. It's going to be epic. Go Spencer! The competition cool and fun to watch and really easy to understand. But pretty all the robot except the top eight failed. They didn't move at all... Including my buddies' robot. Peter was a bit upset. There's some tension with Shankari... She's been acting a bit weird lately; kinda worry for her. sigh. Then when I arrived at Next House, Jenny told me that Anton and Julian went their website to the wrong person, so technically they didn't submit yet, and Julian was breaking down. Shit 0-3, fail. As we approached 3W, it was kind of funny how me, Bohan, and Jenny were walking quietly and whispering, afraid to disturb the hornet's nest. Then all of the sudden we heard Julian's hysterical laugh from Jenny's room. Uh-oh, he's lost it. NOT!!!! JULIAN GOT AN EMAIL SAYING THAT THEY WERE SEMI FINALISTS!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!! (I wished Anton spent that much time on Battlecode QQ). Yea, today was intense.
Now that I finally caught up on my blogging. I have to do Media Lab UROP (aka learn MATLAB and MySQL in the next three hours). I also have buy books and register for classes. Shit. Reality hit hard and fast...
P.S. w00t, Bohan's learning Starcraft.
P.P.S. phew, my first epic blog
P.P.P.S. I BEAT ANTON'S LONGEST BLOG RECORD BIATCH!
P.P.P.P.S. Last day of IAP T_T
Friday, January 23, 2009
Calm Before the Storm
I haven't blogged for a few days because nothing has really happened. Things are somewhat "settling" down. This weekend is going to be a major bitch though.
The highlight of these past days to learning of the Collegiate Star League (CSL). The first match is MIT vs Princeton. Those rich pricks are going to get their asses handed to them of course. The surprising thing is that Yang Yang, 18.023 classroom and ZBT member, is running the team at MIT. Apparently he knows Hazelynut at Princeton; she's a pretty active commentators, but I'm not a fan of her works... Yea the shit's going to be epic.
The highlight of these past days to learning of the Collegiate Star League (CSL). The first match is MIT vs Princeton. Those rich pricks are going to get their asses handed to them of course. The surprising thing is that Yang Yang, 18.023 classroom and ZBT member, is running the team at MIT. Apparently he knows Hazelynut at Princeton; she's a pretty active commentators, but I'm not a fan of her works... Yea the shit's going to be epic.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration Day 2009
Yesterday was undoubtedly a historic day. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States and the first African American President; change is coming (if you don't think so, you should stop reading). So to commemorate this special day, MIT decided to set up lecture halls all around campus for the viewing of the Inauguration ceremony. They even gave all employees 11:30-1:00 off so that they wouldn't have to skip a bit of work to view it (though skipping work for this occasion is totally worthy it imo).
The problem was that I had PE Volleyball until 11:50 on Tuesdays, and Obama gets sworn in at noon. So I had to immediately run to the locker room and changed like a madman. Didn't even have time to shower :(. And subsequently made my way to 10-250.
10-250 was the second largest lecture on campus and seats about 450 students. When I sneaked in through a side door, all sweatly and out of breath, I saw this:
The entire place was packed; people were sitting on the aisle everywhere.
Luckily I got there a couple of minutes early and managed to catch Joe Biden getting sworn in:
and then Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill, and Gabriela Montero performed an amazing rendition of Air and Simple Gifts arranged by John Williams (:D):
It was pretty funny watching Obama and Justice Roberts stumble across the swear of oath, which is like 2 sentences long. And then the man himself spoke:
Everyone was dead silent as they tentatively listened to President Obama give his hopeful but also solemn speech. It was as inspiring as some of his previous speeches, but it definitely spent shivers down my spine and gave the goosebumps. All in all, the Inauguration was a pretty awesome event to witness with others from my academic community.
Where and how did you guys watch the Inauguration? What was it like for you? If you were actually there, post up a blog asap!
Bonus: Flashback to 11/4/08
The problem was that I had PE Volleyball until 11:50 on Tuesdays, and Obama gets sworn in at noon. So I had to immediately run to the locker room and changed like a madman. Didn't even have time to shower :(. And subsequently made my way to 10-250.
10-250 was the second largest lecture on campus and seats about 450 students. When I sneaked in through a side door, all sweatly and out of breath, I saw this:
The entire place was packed; people were sitting on the aisle everywhere.
Luckily I got there a couple of minutes early and managed to catch Joe Biden getting sworn in:
and then Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill, and Gabriela Montero performed an amazing rendition of Air and Simple Gifts arranged by John Williams (:D):
It was pretty funny watching Obama and Justice Roberts stumble across the swear of oath, which is like 2 sentences long. And then the man himself spoke:
Everyone was dead silent as they tentatively listened to President Obama give his hopeful but also solemn speech. It was as inspiring as some of his previous speeches, but it definitely spent shivers down my spine and gave the goosebumps. All in all, the Inauguration was a pretty awesome event to witness with others from my academic community.
Where and how did you guys watch the Inauguration? What was it like for you? If you were actually there, post up a blog asap!
Bonus: Flashback to 11/4/08
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Aftermath
As I'm writing this right now, I'm listening to Day[9]'s audio "rant" on building triggers in Starcraft. Awesome tutorial so far, easy to understand and very informative.
...lost text WTF!!!!!! I SPENT SO MUCH TIME WRITING THIS!!!...
...stuff on Battlecode...We have to find a way to fix this. I then spent even more time trying to write a recursive method for building a staircase to flux deposits so that our archons could collect flux faster. Can you say stack overflow? Geza took over that piece of code, and he's still working on it currently.
Originally, Anton and I didn't want Geza on our team because he's really awkward socially, but he's been invaluable to our team and fun to code with once you get past the "layer of pure cs" as Anton puts it. Props to Geza for joining our team the last second.
As the deadline of submission for the seeding tournament (9PM) approached, our code was as buggy as hell, so you just uploaded a simple but "functional" version of our code. Then we realized that they extended the deadline to 1AM, we scrammed to finished the cannon ai and fix up workers. Neither task was accomplished, so we didn't upload anything new :(.
Monday afternoon was the seeding tournament. We were seeded last going into the seeding tournament. This was because we were really stupid and decided to scrimmage only once and lost. Thus our record was 0-1. If we had scrimmaged 3 more times, we would have went up at least 20 ranks. That's because the seeding was divided into 2 tiers. The top tier consisted of players who scrimmaged 4 or more times. And the reason we were seeded last is because a lot of people didn't scrimmage at all, so their record was 0-0, which was better than our record >.<. So we went into the tournament expected anal rape, but we WON our first match!!! (against a player who ran into our channelers and didn't have any worker code.... but we can forget that detail). In round 2, we were matched against the number 1 seed "gtg ice skating lessons" (Spenser Skates, my ATS big, was in that team) because of our horrible rank T.T. They fucked us like there was no tomorrow. Our channelers didn't work at all for reason reason, and they just hunted us down and raped us. Not even funny. I decided to leave early watch seeing Cathy's 2nd match, which she lost :(. Outside the room, I had a chat with Spenser about Battlecode. He was saying how his entire team was dedicated to get top 8 in the tournament and how they started to work immediately. He gave encouraging words and said how the road to success is forming a team of people dedicated to winning. Nice guy.
I decided that I needed a mental health day after a hellish weekend, so I went back to MacG and watched The Shield and took a short nap. I then went to Next house for dinner with the crew (Anton said I was complaining about ordering in Chinese for some reason). I planned on working on my Media Lab UROP last night (tonight?), but we started talking about classes, so I decided to make my schedule which doesn't seem as packed as last semester, expect for the 3 hour 6.01 lab (wtf). I really want to take Rhetoric because it's a cool subject and a Ci-H, but that would be my 5th class, and I would have to petition for extra credit (assuming I can get in because it's not listed under open HASS-D classes). Arghh spring semester starts so soon. The rest of the night Jenny, Peter, and I photoshopped using this awesome tutorial. It was ridiculously fun, and instead of making a logo for ITASA, Jenny and I made name avatars for ourselves, while Peter stuck to the task. I made a "dark archon" spray for caelym:
It's too pink imo :( but it looks really cool. We need a weekly Photoshop night :D
About a hour ago, I was looking at TL cribs, and some people have NICE places, which makes me want to make my room more personal. But I might not even be staying in MacG... When I do get to decorating my room I definitely want to the the Centrifugal Force print from xkcd.
Things I need to do: finished chicken, do laundry, BATTLECODE, UROP
Things I want to do: watch The Shield, watch Ip Man, find summer internship, sleep
I also temporary solved my water problem by taking a gallon of water left over from G-entry game night.
Shit there were some stuff I wanted to write, but the fucking buggy blogger website made me lose my train of thought. Damn!
P.S. BLOGGER IS SO BUGGY TODAY!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
...lost text WTF!!!!!! I SPENT SO MUCH TIME WRITING THIS!!!...
...stuff on Battlecode...We have to find a way to fix this. I then spent even more time trying to write a recursive method for building a staircase to flux deposits so that our archons could collect flux faster. Can you say stack overflow? Geza took over that piece of code, and he's still working on it currently.
Originally, Anton and I didn't want Geza on our team because he's really awkward socially, but he's been invaluable to our team and fun to code with once you get past the "layer of pure cs" as Anton puts it. Props to Geza for joining our team the last second.
As the deadline of submission for the seeding tournament (9PM) approached, our code was as buggy as hell, so you just uploaded a simple but "functional" version of our code. Then we realized that they extended the deadline to 1AM, we scrammed to finished the cannon ai and fix up workers. Neither task was accomplished, so we didn't upload anything new :(.
Monday afternoon was the seeding tournament. We were seeded last going into the seeding tournament. This was because we were really stupid and decided to scrimmage only once and lost. Thus our record was 0-1. If we had scrimmaged 3 more times, we would have went up at least 20 ranks. That's because the seeding was divided into 2 tiers. The top tier consisted of players who scrimmaged 4 or more times. And the reason we were seeded last is because a lot of people didn't scrimmage at all, so their record was 0-0, which was better than our record >.<. So we went into the tournament expected anal rape, but we WON our first match!!! (against a player who ran into our channelers and didn't have any worker code.... but we can forget that detail). In round 2, we were matched against the number 1 seed "gtg ice skating lessons" (Spenser Skates, my ATS big, was in that team) because of our horrible rank T.T. They fucked us like there was no tomorrow. Our channelers didn't work at all for reason reason, and they just hunted us down and raped us. Not even funny. I decided to leave early watch seeing Cathy's 2nd match, which she lost :(. Outside the room, I had a chat with Spenser about Battlecode. He was saying how his entire team was dedicated to get top 8 in the tournament and how they started to work immediately. He gave encouraging words and said how the road to success is forming a team of people dedicated to winning. Nice guy.
I decided that I needed a mental health day after a hellish weekend, so I went back to MacG and watched The Shield and took a short nap. I then went to Next house for dinner with the crew (Anton said I was complaining about ordering in Chinese for some reason). I planned on working on my Media Lab UROP last night (tonight?), but we started talking about classes, so I decided to make my schedule which doesn't seem as packed as last semester, expect for the 3 hour 6.01 lab (wtf). I really want to take Rhetoric because it's a cool subject and a Ci-H, but that would be my 5th class, and I would have to petition for extra credit (assuming I can get in because it's not listed under open HASS-D classes). Arghh spring semester starts so soon. The rest of the night Jenny, Peter, and I photoshopped using this awesome tutorial. It was ridiculously fun, and instead of making a logo for ITASA, Jenny and I made name avatars for ourselves, while Peter stuck to the task. I made a "dark archon" spray for caelym:
It's too pink imo :( but it looks really cool. We need a weekly Photoshop night :D
About a hour ago, I was looking at TL cribs, and some people have NICE places, which makes me want to make my room more personal. But I might not even be staying in MacG... When I do get to decorating my room I definitely want to the the Centrifugal Force print from xkcd.
Things I need to do: finished chicken, do laundry, BATTLECODE, UROP
Things I want to do: watch The Shield, watch Ip Man, find summer internship, sleep
I also temporary solved my water problem by taking a gallon of water left over from G-entry game night.
Shit there were some stuff I wanted to write, but the fucking buggy blogger website made me lose my train of thought. Damn!
P.S. BLOGGER IS SO BUGGY TODAY!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Shit Hits the Fan
'nuff said
update: been programming since noon yesterday, Geza helped us A LOT, feel a little bad about before, just got back to macg, stream of consciousness ftw, outty
update: been programming since noon yesterday, Geza helped us A LOT, feel a little bad about before, just got back to macg, stream of consciousness ftw, outty
Friday, January 16, 2009
Three Dragons, A Saint, An Emperor, and A Flash of Magic
Team name:
BCCXTAL
(4)
Saint
(7)
JangBi
(8)
Flash
(5)free
(5)Kal
(1)BoxeR (Captain)
(0)KTF MagicNs
That's my fantasy Proleague team. I've been racking my brains over this for days now, trying to find the best fantasy team. Chances are I won't even make the top ten on TL.net, but this has been a fun source of distraction. Now let me explain to you why this lineup (I'm on my 9th now I think) is the best:
First of all, let me explain how this whole fantasy Starcraft thing works. Players compete in this league called to the Proleague, similar to the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc. for other sports. A fantasy team consists of 6 players and 1 Starcraft team. Each entity is assign a point value based on last season's performance. A person spend spend what to 30 points on his teams. Then each player and team gains points throughout the season depending on how well they do. Players and teams could also be traded throughout the season. I won't get to the finer details of the rules.
Now for my team (I will be referring to things not discussed the the above paragraph, so skip this paragraph if you don't quite understand the Proleague system). The linchpin of my team is Jangbi and Flash. These guy are red hot and ready for action. I'm counting on these guys to get team kills, and they can. Jangbi is extremely consistent at a high level and doesn't drop random games like Stork. He had and will beat his fellow S-class progamers. Flash is Flash. He is a fucking genius with impeccable mechanics. He is also the only really good player on KTF, so he'll be sent out every single match; count on it. Supporting Flash and Jangbi are free, Kal, and Saint. Like Flash, free and Kal are pretty much the best players on their respective teams. The only reason they aren't rated as S-class is because they're somewhat inconsistent. free has nervousness problems and can choke, but since Woongjin took over from Hanbit, he's gotten a lot more stable. In round 1, he just dominated, but his momentum slowed down in round 2. I bet he'll be looking to gain back the ground he lost. As much as I hate Kal and his lack of charisma and boring play style, this kid brings results. He, along with Hwasin and July, makes STX a top contender in the Proleague. He racks up Proleague results similar, if not better, than Stork, OSL champion. I still hate him though, but him and free at 5 points is really cost effective. I put in Saint because I need a zerg in my lineup, and I need to take a gamble to do well. This former 2v2 partner is relatively new to the 1v1 scene, but he's surprised lots of people by beating people like Best, free, and firebathero. He's got lots of potential; hopefully he's break out of his shell and show some high level consist ant play. For my team, I chose KTF. One reason is that they benefit a lot from the new all-kill format where Flash can just dominate the opposing team's entire lineup. The second reason is that they cost nada (no pun intended). Last, but my least I have Boxer, the Emperor, on my team. Although he's way past his prime, he'll up off a few wins. He's also got karma, and he'll leech points from SKT wins.
Back to RL.
I've been trying for the past few hours to get the Prosper data in a MySQL database. The tables are all there but they need to be put together. This way I can access the database via MATLAB. Ankur suggested that all I needed to do was unzip the prosper folder, but it turns out it's out that easy. I've created a scripts.mit.edu and sql.mit.edu account and tried to import the tables. So far, everything has failed. I'm going to sleep on it tonight...
I still need to write my goddamn entry for the writing contest :(. Today I dine in HELL!!!!!
Wait... I already am.
Good night.
Note to self: eat that chicken you have in your frig!
P.S. Second night I haven't been to Next house. Maybe I didn't go, so I won't feel as bad about not doing work because of my lack of fun. I still got that One Hundred Pushups program to do. Shit.
P.P.S. My new phone is SICK!
BCCXTAL
(4)
Saint(7)
JangBi(8)
Flash(5)
free(5)
Kal(1)
BoxeR (Captain)(0)KTF MagicNs
That's my fantasy Proleague team. I've been racking my brains over this for days now, trying to find the best fantasy team. Chances are I won't even make the top ten on TL.net, but this has been a fun source of distraction. Now let me explain to you why this lineup (I'm on my 9th now I think) is the best:
First of all, let me explain how this whole fantasy Starcraft thing works. Players compete in this league called to the Proleague, similar to the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc. for other sports. A fantasy team consists of 6 players and 1 Starcraft team. Each entity is assign a point value based on last season's performance. A person spend spend what to 30 points on his teams. Then each player and team gains points throughout the season depending on how well they do. Players and teams could also be traded throughout the season. I won't get to the finer details of the rules.
Now for my team (I will be referring to things not discussed the the above paragraph, so skip this paragraph if you don't quite understand the Proleague system). The linchpin of my team is Jangbi and Flash. These guy are red hot and ready for action. I'm counting on these guys to get team kills, and they can. Jangbi is extremely consistent at a high level and doesn't drop random games like Stork. He had and will beat his fellow S-class progamers. Flash is Flash. He is a fucking genius with impeccable mechanics. He is also the only really good player on KTF, so he'll be sent out every single match; count on it. Supporting Flash and Jangbi are free, Kal, and Saint. Like Flash, free and Kal are pretty much the best players on their respective teams. The only reason they aren't rated as S-class is because they're somewhat inconsistent. free has nervousness problems and can choke, but since Woongjin took over from Hanbit, he's gotten a lot more stable. In round 1, he just dominated, but his momentum slowed down in round 2. I bet he'll be looking to gain back the ground he lost. As much as I hate Kal and his lack of charisma and boring play style, this kid brings results. He, along with Hwasin and July, makes STX a top contender in the Proleague. He racks up Proleague results similar, if not better, than Stork, OSL champion. I still hate him though, but him and free at 5 points is really cost effective. I put in Saint because I need a zerg in my lineup, and I need to take a gamble to do well. This former 2v2 partner is relatively new to the 1v1 scene, but he's surprised lots of people by beating people like Best, free, and firebathero. He's got lots of potential; hopefully he's break out of his shell and show some high level consist ant play. For my team, I chose KTF. One reason is that they benefit a lot from the new all-kill format where Flash can just dominate the opposing team's entire lineup. The second reason is that they cost nada (no pun intended). Last, but my least I have Boxer, the Emperor, on my team. Although he's way past his prime, he'll up off a few wins. He's also got karma, and he'll leech points from SKT wins.
Back to RL.
I've been trying for the past few hours to get the Prosper data in a MySQL database. The tables are all there but they need to be put together. This way I can access the database via MATLAB. Ankur suggested that all I needed to do was unzip the prosper folder, but it turns out it's out that easy. I've created a scripts.mit.edu and sql.mit.edu account and tried to import the tables. So far, everything has failed. I'm going to sleep on it tonight...
I still need to write my goddamn entry for the writing contest :(. Today I dine in HELL!!!!!
Wait... I already am.
Good night.
Note to self: eat that chicken you have in your frig!
P.S. Second night I haven't been to Next house. Maybe I didn't go, so I won't feel as bad about not doing work because of my lack of fun. I still got that One Hundred Pushups program to do. Shit.
P.P.S. My new phone is SICK!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Shit Approaches the Fan
I just spent the last 2 hours fiddling around with Blogger's color schemes and the css of my page. It looks darker now, which is good, but it's also got a bunch of rough edges :(. I'm going to stop now. Maybe one day I'll create my own template, but I do like the modular design of this current one.
The title refers to how screwed I am in the following days. I have to implement some form of A*, maybe beam searching or D*, for our (Anton + I) Battlecode controller. And for TL.net's writing contest, I have to do a creative piece on:
Yes, it's the fugliest picture imaginable. I guess I had it coming seeing as TL is full of starcraft dorks (the bad kind). I also have to work on my Media Lab UROP, which is picking up pace really quickly.
On the bright side of things, I finished season 2 of The Shield, and I'm almost done downloading season 3 (MIT has amazing Internet). I'm also going to have lunch with the Herrmannator (Nate) and DKoss (David) on Friday. Haven't see Kosslyn in over a year :'(.
My plan for the next three hours is: unzip the Prosper MySQL database and connect it to MatLab, write the TL.net writing contest entry, and watch The Shield. I probably will only get to two of the three. T'is life.
Note to self: don't put rotisserie chicken into any kind of soup. It makes everything too greasy and tastes like shit. I had to down my chicken noodle soup with cinnamon swirl bread.
P.S. I finally went to Shaws today and bought Drano. Downed the entire bottle into the sink, and turned on the hot water at full blast a hour later. Hopefully it did something...
P.P.S. Out of curiosity, I went to scribbles.blogspot.com and thewall.blogspot.com and some other urls with cool blog names, and guess what? They're all inactive! What a fucking waste of a kickass domain name.
P.P.P.S. What do you do when you're hosed? Procrastinate of course! Only got one of the three things done. You can guess which one.
The title refers to how screwed I am in the following days. I have to implement some form of A*, maybe beam searching or D*, for our (Anton + I) Battlecode controller. And for TL.net's writing contest, I have to do a creative piece on:
Yes, it's the fugliest picture imaginable. I guess I had it coming seeing as TL is full of starcraft dorks (the bad kind). I also have to work on my Media Lab UROP, which is picking up pace really quickly.
On the bright side of things, I finished season 2 of The Shield, and I'm almost done downloading season 3 (MIT has amazing Internet). I'm also going to have lunch with the Herrmannator (Nate) and DKoss (David) on Friday. Haven't see Kosslyn in over a year :'(.
My plan for the next three hours is: unzip the Prosper MySQL database and connect it to MatLab, write the TL.net writing contest entry, and watch The Shield. I probably will only get to two of the three. T'is life.
Note to self: don't put rotisserie chicken into any kind of soup. It makes everything too greasy and tastes like shit. I had to down my chicken noodle soup with cinnamon swirl bread.
P.S. I finally went to Shaws today and bought Drano. Downed the entire bottle into the sink, and turned on the hot water at full blast a hour later. Hopefully it did something...
P.P.S. Out of curiosity, I went to scribbles.blogspot.com and thewall.blogspot.com and some other urls with cool blog names, and guess what? They're all inactive! What a fucking waste of a kickass domain name.
P.P.P.S. What do you do when you're hosed? Procrastinate of course! Only got one of the three things done. You can guess which one.
First Post
So this is the first post of my first blog. Why do I choose to blog now, after being affluent with the Internet for 6 years? Well yesterday I had a epiphany while walking back to MacGregor from 34-101. The epiphany is that my life was passing away, and I have nothing to remember my day to day life by. One could argue that I am the summation of my everyday experiences, but the progress in which I got here is lost.
Back in the old days, writing in a journal or diary was the norm, and the journal was a valued possession. And it was valued because it was a collection of raw and unedited of one's experiences through life. It provided a window into a person's life that one cannot get just by talking to the person's relatives or friends. An example of this is shown in the move The Prestige. You could in the triumph in Angier's eyes when he got hold of Borden's journal. It was like he had control over Borden soul once he had his hands of Borden's most valuable possession (or so he thought). A more lilteral case of this is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And I begin to digress, but the point is that a blog is the modern day equivalent of a journal and should be valued just as much.
Hence I start my blog, so that in the years to come, I can look back at what I did on February 18th, 2010 and remember all the good times or reflect on my past mistakes. Cheers.
Back in the old days, writing in a journal or diary was the norm, and the journal was a valued possession. And it was valued because it was a collection of raw and unedited of one's experiences through life. It provided a window into a person's life that one cannot get just by talking to the person's relatives or friends. An example of this is shown in the move The Prestige. You could in the triumph in Angier's eyes when he got hold of Borden's journal. It was like he had control over Borden soul once he had his hands of Borden's most valuable possession (or so he thought). A more lilteral case of this is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And I begin to digress, but the point is that a blog is the modern day equivalent of a journal and should be valued just as much.
Hence I start my blog, so that in the years to come, I can look back at what I did on February 18th, 2010 and remember all the good times or reflect on my past mistakes. Cheers.
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